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The Government of Jamaica has imposed a State of Emergency, limited to Kingston and St. Andrew, where the security forces are conducting an operation to serve an arrest warrant on Michael Christopher Coke. Since this activity is confined to a small section of the country, the island's two international airports remain open. Arrangements have been made for all critical personnel...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has withdrawn its service from downtown Kingston, due to the unstable security situation in the area. JUTC buses All JUTC routes which either terminate or originate in downtown Kingston have been re-routed from the area. These include buses from Portmore, which normally travel via Marcus Garvey Drive. These units will now travel via Hagley...

Jamaican children are being encouraged to participate in the Children Against Reckless Driving (CARD) campaign, which is promoting safety on the nation's roads. The campaign encourages children to make a card which promotes safe motoring skills, to someone they admire as being a good road model or motorist. The campaign, which runs from May to June, targets children aged seven...

Annette Howard, the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus operator who assisted over 100 passengers of an American Airline plane which overran the runway at the Norman Manley International Airport in December, will have her dream come through this week. She and her family will travel to Disney World, Orlando, Florida on Thursday (May 20) fulfilling a wish she expressed...

Work is progressing on the installation of a new pipeline, along the Spanish Town Bypass, St. Catherine, with some 18 kilometres of the 22-kilometres of pipeline having already been completed. Minister of Water and Housing, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, said that the project is being undertaken under the $7.8 billion Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA) Water Supply Project. He was speaking...

Repair work on the Manning's Boy's Home in Southfield, St. Elizabeth, is slated for completion by the end of May. The $4 million project is expected to provide additional space at the home for administrators and residents. In 2007, Hurricane Dean damaged the administrative block at the home, which forced the authorities to install make-shift offices and this affected full...

As part of an ongoing drive to achieve a more efficient and reliable transportation system in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR), the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) on May 13, offloaded a shipment of 50 new Belgian-made buses, which should be commissioned into service by June 1. Communications Manager at the JUTC, Reginald Allen, explained that the buses are...

Thousands of commuters across western Jamaica will experience smoother traffic flow as they traverse through Green Island, Hanover, with the Queen's River Bridge being commissioned into service by Minister of Transport and Works, Hon. Mike Henry, on Friday (May 14). The new two-lane bridge, constructed by the National Works Agency (NWA) at a cost of $89 million, formed part of...

Minister of Transport and Works, Hon. Mike Henry, on Friday (May 14) cut the ribbon to signal the official opening and commissioning into service of the Fairfield/Tucker Bridge near Montego Bay, St. James. The new bridge, designed to accommodate two lanes of traffic, was constructed at a cost of US$1.9 million ($169 million). It replaces the single lane structure which...

The Waterloo Road Bridge in St. Andrew, constructed at a cost of US$5.5 million under the Government of Jamaica/R.A Murray Priority Bridge Programme, was officially opened today (May 15). Completed earlier this month, the project included the widening of the roadway to accommodate four lanes of traffic. "This is one of four bridges that I have opened in the last...

Chief Executive Officer of the National Works Agency (NWA), Patrick Wong, has assured that appropriate measures will be taken to prevent any possible environmental fallout from the multi-million dollar Palisadoes Protective and Rehabilitative Works Project, to be executed along the Palisadoes peninsula in Kingston. "We have gone through great length to ensure that.we do not have an environmental disaster," he...

The Government is to send a team to Washington, next week, to seek to resolve the issue of the proposed designation of Caribbean Airlines as a carrier under the Jamaica/USA bilateral Air Transport Agreement. Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, made the disclosure at Wednesday's (May 12) Post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House....